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How Vin Bui became engineer #1 at Nowadays — and started treating it like his own company
Y Combinator Blog · Oct 20, 2026 · 11:30 AM ET
Vin found Nowadays on Work at a Startup, saw a codebase he could fix, and joined as the first engineer. Now he builds AI voice tools and mentors the team.
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